Apocalypse No: Doomsday Believers React to Rapture Fail

Posted on May 23, 2011

Here we have a very interesting object lesson on the psychological phenomenon known as rationalization. Followers of Family Radio’s self-styled prognosticator Harold Camping, who encountered some problems with his theory that the world would end last Saturday—specifically, in that it didn’t end last Saturday—had to come to terms with the empirical evidence that they were, in fact, not taken up into the heavens May 21. So, what now? —KA